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Ave flowers






Our Lady of Sorrows
holds out her arms
to capture the harm
that's become you,

comrades lost
in primal wars
by sores and scars
unhealed, concealed,

then she lays on your bed
of earthen fear
to hear and seal
the tears of your passage

and bears a protest
of love undone
to the radiant fusion
of her sun.


flower
Ave is a Latin salutation meaning both Hail! and Farewell!



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Midi music file: Schubert's "Ave Maria"


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